Dodonaea polyandra
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
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|image = Dodonaea polyandra.jpg
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|genus = Dodonaea
|species = polyandra
|authority = Merr. & L.M.Perry{{cite web |title=Dodonaea polyandra |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/72290 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=7 June 2025}}
|synonyms =
- Dodonaea viscosa subf. laurina Radlk.
- Dodonaea viscosa var. laurina Britten nom. inval.
- Dodonaea viscosa α vulgaris auct. non Benth.: Bentham, G. (30 May 1863)
}}
File:Dodonaea polyandra fruit.jpg
Dodonaea polyandra is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a spreading, dioecious shrub or tree with simple elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, the flowers usually with four sepals and 11 to 14 stamens, and capsules usually with two wings.
Description
Dodonaea polyandra is a spreading dioecious shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|8|m}}. Its leaves are simple, elliptic, {{cvt|55–105|mm}} long, {{cvt|1.6–4.25|mm}} long and glabrous on a petiole {{cvt|3–10|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|4.5–14|mm}} long, usually with linear sepals, {{cvt|2.5–3.0|mm}} long that fall off as the flower develops, and 11 to 14 stamens. The ovary is glabrous. The fruit is a two-winged, broadly oblong capsule {{cvt|16–28|mm}} long and {{cvt|15–30|mm}} wide and glabrous with membranous wings {{cvt|6–9|mm}} wide.{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Judith G. |editor-last1=Busby|editor-first1=John R. |title=Dodonaea polyandra |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dodonaea%20polyandra |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=7 June 2025}}
Taxonomy
Dodonaea polyandra was first formally described in 1945 by Elmer Drew Merrill and Lily May Perry the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.{{cite web |title=Dodonaea polyandra |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/483804 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=7 June 2025}} The specific epithet (polyandra) means 'many-stamens'.{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |last2=Sharr |first2=F.A |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables |location=Kardinya |isbn=9780958034197 |page=281 |edition=4th}}
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows on the edges of rainforest or in open woodland in sandy or gravelly soil on the north and east of Cape York Peninsula, in the White Mountains National Park and in the Western Province (Papua New Guinea) of New Guinea.
Conservation status
Dodonaea polyandra is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.{{cite web |title=Taxon Record 17380 - Dodonaea polyandra |url=https://wildnet.science-data.qld.gov.au/taxon-detail?taxon_id=17380&tab=0&backQuery=include_sighting_count%253Dfalse%2526taxon_name%253DDodonaea%252Bpolyandra%2526advanced%253Dfalse%2526location_search_by%253Darea%2526sightings_page_number%253D0%2526sightings_page_size%253D100%2526species_page_number%253D0%2526species_page_size%253D100%2526tab%253D0 |publisher=Queensland Government, WildNet |access-date=18 May 2025}}